Mandell Creighton — Queen Elizabeth

London; Paris; Edinburgh, Boussod, Valadon & Co, 1896. First edition. Leather. A nicely bound first edition copy of Mandell Creighton's popular biography on Queen Elizabeth I, a lovely work complete with plates. The first edition of this work.Bound by M. M. P. in 1904, with a beautiful gilt decoration to the front board.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-two monochrome plates, and head- and tail-pieces.Collated, complete.Mandell Creighton's important biography on Queen Elizabeth I, looking into her long reign and how she changed the country. An interesting biography that includes personal insights, woven with a look at her political actions and Elizabethan public affairs.Creighton's is a wonderful and concise biography written in an approachable style. In a full morocco binding by M. M. P. Externally, generally smart. Light fading to the boards and spine. Torn label to the tail of the spine. Spine is a little faded. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine. Head and tail of the boards are a little faded. Label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a few scattered spots. Institutional stamp to the half-title, frontispiece, title page, plates, and to a couple of other pages. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .